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    • Farm animal welfare (pigs, broiler chickens, beef and dairy cattle)
    • Abattoir-based animal welfare assessment
    • Cat welfare
    • The human-animal bond
    • Anthrozoology
    • Evolutionary psychology
    • Development of animal welfare assessment methods
    Dr Grace Carroll
    • Focused on the psychology of relief, future thinking and debt, and cross-cultural differences in essentialist thinking.
    Dr Aidan Feeney
    • The human animal bond
    • Animal welfare
    • Laterality in animals
    • Pets and human health
    Dr Deborah Wells
    • Psychosocial adjustment in chronic conditions
    • Arts in health
    • Animals and health
    • Vaccination hesitancy
    • Eating behavior
    Dr Emma Berry
    • The measurement of auditory perception in young children
    • Early precursors to the development of language or literacy
    • Trajectories of neural development for speech and language processing in infancy and early childhood
    Dr Tim Fosker
    • Arts in health, music health and wellbeing
    • Ageing
    • Psycho-oncology
    • Health behavior change
    • Digital health technologies
    Dr Jenny Groarke
    • Psychosocial intervention development for post-treatment cancer survivors and carers
    • Improving quality of life in advanced illness
    • Public health approaches to palliative care
    • Psychosocial interventions in spinal deformity
    Dr Lisa Graham-Wisener
    • Auditory perception in relation to coordination / mobility (including in people with visual impairments or Parkinson’s disease)
    • Auditory augmented feedback in skill acquisition / rehabilitation
    • Skill acquisition in music, particularly in musical improvisation
    Dr Matthew Rodger
    • PhD projects on addiction (with a particular focus on alcohol) and mental health research utilising psychological approaches to prevention, assessment and intervention. 
    Dr Paul Toner
    • Field of cultural diversity
    • Immigration and integration
    • Identity politics
    • Educational success
    • Political participation of immigrants and minorities
    • Using a wide range of methods from comparative, multi-level, longitudinal research designs and analyses to experimental and intervention studies.
    Dr Gülseli Baysu
    • The field of the relationship between physical and mental health
    • Measurement and modelling of trauma and post-traumatic stress
    • The role of shame in mental health.
    Dr Donncha Hanna
    • Perceptual basis of movement
    • Design of non-viral delivery systems
    Dr Joost Dessing
    Dr Mihalis Doumas
    • Canine olfaction
    • Canine cognition
    • Medical alert dogs
    • Well-being of pet owners
    • Collection of biological samples for training dogs
    Dr Catherine Reeve
    • Promoting confidence in contact among school children

    • Developing interventions to promote positive intergroup behaviour

    • Nostalgia and intergroup relations

    Professor Rhiannon Turner
    • Design and evaluation of community interventions to promote social cohesion

    • Superordinate, cross-cutting, and alternative forms of identification in divided societies

    • Development and maintenance of cross-group friendships

    Dr Danielle L Blaylock
    • Pioneering Parents project, please visit https://pioneeringparentsqub.wordpress.com/
    • Helping Kids! project, please visit https://helpingkidsqubblog.wordpress.com/
    • Altruism Born of Suffering project, please visit https://pydqub.wordpress.com/ 
    Dr Laura K Taylor
    • Modelling the psychological predictors of health-related quality of life via reviews of current literature and primary research
    • Designing and evaluating interventions to enhance quality of life and modify illness and sick-role behaviours.
    • Developing and testing instruments to measure psychological constructs of importance in this area, eg. health-related quality of life.
    Dr Martin Dempster
    • Visual motion processing
    • Perceived duration of visual events
    • Identifying cortical loci of motion-induced illusions
    • Role of laughter in social interaction
    Dr Will Curran
    • Facial expression of emotion
    • Sensorimotor simulation and facial mimicry
    • Culture and emotion
    • Development of emotional competence
    Magdalena Rychlowska
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